-- 40. Julianus of Telepte [1817] said: "It is written, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven;' [1818] if heresy is from heaven, it can give baptism." [1819]

41. Let him hear another also saying: If covetousness is from heaven, it can give baptism. And yet the covetous do confer it; so therefore also may the heretics.

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Footnotes:

[1817] Telepte (Thelepte) or Thala, was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacium.

[1818] John 3:27.

[1819] Conc. Carth. sec. 57.